The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-10-08
MISS LILLIAN SMITH.
How Beautiful Wild West Eiiic
Shot Got Married.
From the LONDON Torirsl T;,ac,.l

carry the palm between lilcln us SHUT
lists" Miss Smith is of medium height,
as plump as partridge, and as good
natured as she is brisk III her merry
prattle.
snow. Miss Smith, remarked, evil
YOU Just start off and tell Inc IS much
about yourself as You would care to let
the public know. =
"Well, in the first place, my parents
We're very much averse TO my receiving
any attention from the opposite sex;
they said / was very much too young.
didn't think so. You see, since my
birth 1 had always associated with my
elders, so I suppose | may consider my
self prematurelv old. Well, now, I'll
Just take Won into my confidence. Ny
mother was determined L should not
marry any one, and my father seemed to
have taken a decided aversion to my
Jim They tried evcrythinGt to prevent
nv seeing him, and | used to worry my
self to death about it. This was mt
Erastina, Staten Island, New York, last
August. But L soon hit upon plan.
l suddenly developed mania for ice
creams, which were sold in camp, right
below the line of tents. and used to he
always down there eating them. Jim's
tent was down at that end, and when
nv mother and father thought l WAS
filling up and making myself i'll with
creams, 1 used to drop them like shot
when they were not looking, and pop
into Jim's tent and have quiet flirta-
ton. Jim had boy scout always on
the watch, and when mother or father
were coming down the walk he would
give whistle, and l would dive into the
ice cream shanty again. This sort of
thing went Oh until the 9th of Sep
tcmber, when We made up our
minds something had to he done.
All the camp knew that / was
dead in love with jim. and he with me.
My parents wouldn't listen to anything
Jim had to say, so we had to decide for
ourselves. Well, on this night got n
lady friend to come and stay with me,
and it was arranged that the marriage
should take place the next morning.
Buck Taylor had his tent moved in the
opposite direction to mine, and consti-
tuted himself master OF the ceremonies.
You will see what he had his tent moved
for. Well, the next morning, the 2Sth
Il shall never forget it-as we We're
going to breakfast my father caught me
talking to Jim, which nearly sent him
mad; he got into terrible rage, and
forbade me ever speaking to Jim again.
This was very funny, You will admit,
considering we were Just on the point
Of getting married. As to Jim, my
father said he would shoot him with n
shotgun if he ever caught us together
again. Only fancy; and this hardly an
hour before he was going to take me
for better or worse. Things were get
ting very uncomfortable, when Buck
Taylor strolled up and asked me to come
and look at the nice way in which he
had fixed up his tent. Father let me
go, and when we got there we found
jim and all the COWBOYS assembled,
with the Justice in the middle Of them,
and he married lis straight away. Just
think, it WAS all over III minute. We
don't waste much time on the other
side. do We.
81 went back to my parents and
never sail word. Jim made himself
scarce. | meant toilet them find it out
for themselves. AMI SO they did, for the
papers got hold oft and the first thing |
saw my father reading the next day was
a Marriage in Camp There was a
scene, You bet. Nv mother said she
would kill herself if it were true. and
my father promptly whisked me two
hundred miles away from New York
and put me in solitary confinement,
where remained for weeks. Eventu-
ally l got permission to go ont one day
TO buy some ribbons, and at once look
the opportunity Of jumping on the cars
Ny parents had telegraphed TO stop me.
Fortunately gentleman, who subse-
uuently turned out to be friend OF
Jim's-and, strange to say, knew me,
but I didn't know h;m-got hold Of the
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